Abstract:
A method. The method may include transmitting an optical noise signal to a first photodetector and a second photodetector within an optical receiver circuit that includes a transimpedance amplifier circuit. The method may further include measuring, in response to transmitting the optical noise signal, a power output from the optical receiver circuit. The method may further include determining, using the power output, a difference in photodetector responsivity between the first photodetector and the second photodetector. The method may further include adjusting, using a transimpedance gain controller, an amplifier gain within the optical receiver circuit to decrease a difference in photodetector responsivity between the first photodetector and the second photodetector.
Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for providing the weapon-mounted optical scope that provides for wind sensing and the display a ballistic solution without the need for a separate device. Embodiments may include various additional sensors housed within the weapon-mounted optical scope to provide data for the ballistic solution calculation. Embodiments may further include a display at the input aperture rather than internally at the first-focal-plane, enabling for simpler, more cost effective embodiments. Additionally or alternatively, embodiments may include a laser, separate from the wind sensing laser, to perform range-finding functions, and/or an enhanced-image assembly.
Abstract:
An imaging system includes an array of photodetectors and electronic circuitry associated with the photodetectors to read intensity values from the photodetectors. The electronic circuitry can include an integrator with an integrator capacitor having a nominal capacitance, wherein a gain of the electronic circuitry associated with a photodetector can depend at least in part on the actual capacitance of the integrator capacitor, the actual capacitance differing from the nominal capacitance. The imaging system can be configured to determine a gain factor that depends at least in part on the actual capacitance and/or a signal voltage input to the integrator. The imaging system can be configured to apply the gain factor based at least in part on the actual capacitance of the integrator capacitor calculated. The imaging system can be a thermal imaging system and may include an infrared camera core.
Abstract:
The system may include a pixel array, a selector, a sampler, and a converter. The pixel array may generate output signals that representing radiation incident upon the pixel array. The selector may select one of the output signals. The sampler may sample the selected output signal. The converter may generate a digital signal based upon the selected output signal. The sampler may include a charge integrator that compensates for parasitic capacitance of the selector by selecting a first feedback capacitance to obtain a first sample, and after obtaining the first sample, selecting a second feedback capacitance to obtain a second sample. The first feedback capacitance may be greater than the second feedback capacitance.
Abstract:
A photodetector continuously measure quantity of light ranging from high intensity to low intensity at high speed. The photodetector comprises an operational amplifier, a photodiode connected to an inverting terminal of the operational amplifier for outputting a signal corresponding to quantity of light to be detected, a plurality of feedback resistors differentiated in each resistance value, an analog switch for selectively connecting input terminals thereof to which one ends of the feedback resistors are connected to an output terminal of the operational amplifier except the feedback resistor having the maximum resistance value, or connecting the input terminal thereof which is rendered in a non-connection state to the output terminal of the operational amplifier instead of the feedback resistor having the maximum resistance value, wherein the feedback resistor having the maximum resistance value is connected to the output terminal of the operational amplifier at its one end and to the inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier at its other end, and wherein the other ends of the other feedback resistors are connected to the inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier.
Abstract:
A spectrophotometer comprising a light source, a spectroscope which separates the light of light source depending on the wavelengths, chops the light into the first and second light beams and allows the light beams to pass through the reference cell and sample cell, a photodiode which alternately receives the light beams from the reference cell and sample cell, a variable gain amplifier which amplifies a light current of photodiode, an A/D converter which converts and guides the reference output and sample output as the digital values synchronously with the chopping period, and a again setter which sets the gain of the variable gain amplifier depending on the reference output value from the A/D converter.
Abstract:
A device for measuring the intensity of light received by a photosensor comprises a photosensor for receiving light and producing a corresponding current and a circuit for integrating the current so that the intensity of the received light is indicated as the time required for the integration value of the integrating circuit to reach a predetermined value. If the intensity of the light is determined to be high at the start of the integration operation the integration value is set to the smaller of two predetermined values. If the intensity of the light is low, the integration value is set to a larger value.
Abstract:
A digital gain controlled current to voltage amplifier having particular utility for interfacing with and forming part of a spectrophotometer system with a photomultiplier tube being responsive to light for producing an analog current proportional to the intensity thereof. The digital gain controlled current to voltage amplifier incorporates a current switched multiplying digital-to-analog converter inside its feedback loop. In this manner, the feedback loop impedance may be maintained constant as its gain is varied under control of a software programmed microcomputer.
Abstract:
An apparatus for detecting optical signals includes a photodetector. The photodetector is reverse-biased by a first voltage and a second voltage is added to the first voltage to provide an offset equal to the second voltage for the photodetector. A first circuit is coupled to the first circuit to provide the second voltage for the photodetector and a second circuit is coupled to the first circuit to provide the first voltage to the photodetector to reverse-bias the photodetector. The second circuit provides an output voltage proportional to a current of the photodetector at an output of the second circuit.
Abstract:
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes an avalanche photodiode including an anode and a cathode, a switch that is connected to one node of the anode and the cathode, and a power line to which a drive voltage is to be applied, and configured to switch a resistance value between the one node and the power line, and a signal generation unit configured to generate a pulse signal for controlling switching of the switch, wherein a value obtained by dividing the number of the pulse signals in a first exposure period by the first exposure period, and a value obtained by dividing the number of the pulse signals in a second exposure period having a length different from a length of the first exposure period, by the second exposure period are different.